Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the novel Once Upon a River and a 2011 Guggenheim
Fellow. She was a 2009 National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics
Circle Award finalist for her collection of stories American Salvage, which won the Foreword Book of the Year award for
short fiction. Campbell is also author of the novel Q Road and the story collection Women
& Other Animals. She’s received the AWP Award for Short Fiction,
a Pushcart Prize, and the Eudora Welty Prize. Her poetry collection Love Letters to Sons of Bitches won the
2009 CBA Letterpress Chapbook award. Campbell lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with
her husband. She holds a second degree black belt in Koburyu Kobudo, an
Okinawan weapons art, and in her spare time gardens and hangs out with her
donkeys Jack and Don Quixote. You can check out her website bonniejocampbell.com
and her writer’s life blog, The Bone-Eye.
